Hi, > what happens when you're tracking a bug? do you give up when > it enters linux? how do you configure hardware if you're not > going to use the linux machinery?
>From a very theoretical perspective, using a different userspace with the Linux kernel shouldn't be all that difficult. I'm not sure how much tied a traditional Linux userspace is to the kernel, so I don't the answers to your questions. > why are linux schedulers interesting? Well, to be honest, I haven't looked at the Plan 9 schedulers; so amongst the ones that we have seen so far, Linux has the most interesting set of schedulers (purely from a classroom perspective). > i think that rather than the best of both worlds, you'd end up > with the worst of both. all the joys of linux administration and > yet no (insert favorite browser here). So, the best of both worlds would mean the Plan 9 kernel and the GNU userspace? Or perhaps Plan 9 wants to be single all his (her?) life ;) -- Anant
